Michel7-2 at 2014 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

Second
Sandro
Trolliet

Lead
Simon
Gempeler

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel defeated Joffrey Vincent (Besancon, FRA) 13-3, then went on to lose 6-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Michel responded with a 5-3 win over Jiri Snitil (Praha, CZE). Michel won 8-6 against David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO). Michel went on to lose 8-6 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Michel responded with a 7-6 win over Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT). Michel won 9-7 against Tomi Rantamaki (Helsinki, FIN), then won 8-3 against Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS) and 5-4 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships Championship title, Michel earned 45.000 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 10th place overall with 200.175 total points. Michel ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 109.665 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	68	45	0	0.602	44-9	16-27	15-12	1-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	883	615	536	6.96	6.07	0.89	4.28	3.99	1.63	1.52	1.73

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	424	477	94	68	9-1	30-5	103-10	1.13	0.22	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	459	138	442	85	2-8	6-19	26-98	0.30	0.96	0.56	0.20

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